Re: iris DIGEST V1 #30

Where did you get them from? Maybe they have to acclimate to your conditions. I bought some from Cooley's and they grew nicely right away but most did not bloom the next year after planting. But the follwing year was worth the wait!!

Bruce Gerrits <B_gerrits@earthlink.net> wrote:I have a question I planted a lot of Irises last year and only a couple of
them ever bloomed all of them have folige what are the causes of Irises not
blooming
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>
> iris DIGEST Wednesday, July 7 2004 Volume 01 : Number
030
>
>
>
> In this issue:
>
> Re: [iris] OT:Complaint Dept:Non-iris
> Re: [iris] OT-BIO: HYB: Minnesota, new pollen dauber
> [iris] Re: OT-BIO: Minnesota Joe
> [iris] Deer Deterrent....
> [iris] OT Deer Deterrent...what a friend said
> [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
> Re: [iris] Deer Deterrent....
> Re: [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
> Re: [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
>
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>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Carole Taber 
> Subject: Re: [iris] OT:Complaint Dept:Non-iris
>
> Just to add my 2 cents worth--I too had a bad experience with this
nursery. Ordered a tree and they sent me the wrong kind, of course sending
it way late in the shipping season. When I called them (the day the tree
came), they refused, in no uncertain terms, to replace it because their
shipping dates had ended the previous day. I felt they should have sent me a
new one since it was their goof that put the matter over the last date, and
was only one day over. I could not use the tree that came, as it needed very
moist coditions and gets way too big for the available space on my lot, but
I did find a home for it with a relative. On the "plus" side, the tree that
came was a beautiful little tree, just not what I wanted. Attempting to get
them to send the correct tree was a very frustrating and futile matter, the
problem seeming to be that nobody wanted to take responsibility for making a
decision to make an exception to the shipping season dates, each person I
talked to claimin!
> g that
> there was no one else I could talk to. Like there was nobody really in
charge. As you say, "bad business practice". Sorry for the "rant", but this
matter still gets my goat! I lost a whole season on the tree. I'm not as
young as I used to be, so every season counts! ha.
>
> Autmirislvr@aol.com wrote:Collectively, we've said a lot about mail order
catalogs in the 5 + years
> that I've been on this list. This post is to RANT a bit, but also report
on a
> recent experience with Henry Fields.
>
> Yes, I know they had problems, but I was willing to give them a second
chance
> when I learned they had reorganized. I am now regretting that decision.
> There were several things I didn't like. Football mums were not strong
enough to
> survive the transplant. Very skimpy on roots.
>
> BUT . . . my strawberry plants were the big problem. They didn't arrive!
> When I enquired, Fields put me off and did NOT tell me they couldn't
supply the
> plants until it was to late to order from anyone else. Bad business
> practices. Grrrrr!!
>
> Of course, I'd NEVER buy irises from them, but I thought . . . . WRONG!!!!
>
>
> Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
> Bridge In Time Iris Garden@website:
> www.thegardensite.com/irises/bridgeintime/
>
>
>
>
>
> Carole Taber
> Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
> Zone 4/5
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:32:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Mullins 
> Subject: Re: [iris] OT-BIO: HYB: Minnesota, new pollen dauber
>
> Hello Linda, everyone, I now have a login here at
> hort.net I believe.
>
> I think I may learn a lot from all of you. I think
> I'll try putting the seeds in pots and leaving them
> outside in a sandbox until the middle of December or
> so, then I'll take half of them into the greenouse,
> and take the other half into the greenhouse in the
> middle of January. That'll freeze the seeds for a
> solid 8 to 12 weeks.
>
> Just a note, by searching the archives a little, you
> all know a LOT about iris.
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:20:29 -0400
> From: Linda Mann 
> Subject: [iris] Re: OT-BIO: Minnesota Joe
>
> There you are.. Glad you found us, since I deleted the message with
> your email address. Trying to clean out my mail so my PC won't crash
> quite as often.
>
> I've learned a tremendous amount from all the helpful people in this
> group. Plus we keep experimenting, sharing our results, learning more
> as we go along. Wish more members had time to share what's going on in
> their gardens - used to be a much more active group than it has been
> lately.
>
> > all know a LOT about iris. Joe Mullins>
>
> - --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> East Tennessee Iris Society 
> American Iris Society web site 
> talk archives: 
> photos archives: 
> online R&I 
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:54:09 -0400
> From: "Bob and Sandra" 
> Subject: [iris] Deer Deterrent....
>
> We were discussing deer eating Iris,etc. Found this. Hope it helps for I
> know I hate to lose one flower. I don't know if it really works but hope
it
> does. Sandra
>
>
> http://www.mydeergarden.com/Deterrents/Milorganite.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:01:27 -0400
> From: "Bob and Sandra" 
> Subject: [iris] OT Deer Deterrent...what a friend said
>
> Sorry should have put OT on other one about deer deterrent. Sandra
>
> Here's what a friend said about it.
>
>
> I just wanted to say that I have used
> > > Milorganite to try to keep the deer away from my garden. It works
> >as long
> > > as you put it on religiously. Once it rains and you forget to
> >replace it,
> > > the deer come in, but it does work. And, my flowers were never
> >more
> > > beautiful and more prolific than they were when I used it for an
> >entire
> > > summer. My bulbs came up beautiful the next year, too.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Mullins 
> Subject: [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
>
> Since TBs rebloom so poorly here, I was hoping there
> were some dwarf iris that have been known to rebloom.
> The dwarfs do very well here (low end of z4). I left
> about 25 dwarfs in a 2 inch flower trough that I
> didn't know the names of as customers didn't come get
> their plants and the names came off (So they got new
> plants, lol). I forgot about them and they wintered
> over (-40 degrees and lower many times at night) with
> no cover, no snow cover as they were on the deck, only
> an inch or two of dirt and now have full size fans.
> They are amazing. If only our TBs were that hardy...
>
> Does anybody know of which dwarf iris rebloom or if
> anyone is working on reblooming dwarf lines? A person
> told me adamgrove gardens is a good place to start but
> I have been unable to contact them.
>
> Joe Mullins (New Minnesota Pollen Dauber)
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:51:31 EDT
> From: Autmirislvr@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [iris] Deer Deterrent....
>
> I just got an advertisement from Gardner's Supply. They have garlic clips
> that are supposed to help with the deer and rabbits. Anyone have any
experience
> with this?
>
> I can't tell that the human hair bothered my deer at all!!
>
>
> Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
> Bridge In Time Iris Garden@website:
> www.thegardensite.com/irises/bridgeintime/
> iris-photos archives
> iris-talk archives
> AIS: American Iris Society website
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 04 10:55:13 -0000
> From: laurief 
> Subject: Re: [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
>
> >Does anybody know of which dwarf iris rebloom or if
> >anyone is working on reblooming dwarf lines? A person
> >told me adamgrove gardens is a good place to start but
> >I have been unable to contact them.
>
>
> Joe, the only SDB that has rebloomed for me so far is WHAT AGAIN, and it
> only did so once.
>
> Laurie, between Grand Rapids and Bemidji
>
>
> - -----------------
> laurief@paulbunyan.net
> http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
> http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/shadowood/irisintro.html
> USDA zone 3b, AHS zone 4 - northern MN
> normal annual precipitation 26-27"
> slightly acid clay soil
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:25:36 -0500
> From: "Arnold Koekkoek" 
> Subject: Re: [iris] Reblooming Dwarf Iris
>
> Here in NW Iowa, which is zone 4 but not too far from zone 5, I have never
had
> a reblooming SDB, nor has anyone in our club, which is centered in Siouz
City,
> about 45-50 miles farther south, ever mentioned having one.
> Arnold
>
> Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
> 38 7th Street, NE
> Sioux Center, IA 51250
> e-mail koekkoek@mtcnet.net
>
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